On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:14:49 +0800 (SST), Murali Nagaraj
<murali.n@tatainfotech.com> said:
> Hello,
> Is there a support for non-blocking IO in Linux?
> Has anyone experimented with it?
If you mean standard Unix O_NONBLOCK, for sockets and pipes, then yes,
it works fine under Linux. If you mean async IO to regular files, then
glibc-2.1 has a libaio for posix.4 asynchronous reads and writes,
implemented using threads.
--Stephen
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